Category: Columns

Josep Borrell: War in Gaza: we cannot continue with business as usual

Posted on November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 | Josep Borrell | The European External Action Service (EEAS)

15.11.2024 Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission

HR/VP Blog post – After a year of unheeded pleas by the Israeli authorities regarding respect for international law in the Gaza war, we cannot continue with business as usual. This is why I have proposed to EU Member States to ban imports from illegal settlements and to suspend the political dialogue with Israel. We will discuss these measures at the Foreign Affairs Council next week.

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Thugs and Hooligans

Posted on November 10, 2024November 10, 2024 | Mouin Rabbani

It’s now pretty clear what happened in Amsterdam this week. But first some background. By Mouin Rabbani

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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee – Stop the assault on Palestinians in Gaza and on those trying to help them

Posted on November 2, 2024November 2, 2024 | UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee

We the leaders of 15 United Nations and humanitarian organizations urge, yet again, all parties fighting in Gaza to protect civilians, and call on the State of Israel to cease its assault on Gaza and on the humanitarians trying to help.

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How Free Speech Failed at Harvard — and How to Rescue It

Posted on October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 | Ryan D. Enos | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Academic freedom must be free from politics.

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1000+ Authors Refuse Collaboration with Complicit Israeli Publishers in Mass Declaration

Posted on October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 | The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest)

October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people.

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Urgent global appeal: Defend UNRWA from Israeli ban and prevent catastrophic consequences for Palestinians

Posted on October 27, 2024October 27, 2024 | ActionAid

We call on world leaders to act urgently to protect UNRWA from the unprecedented and dangerous attacks it faces from the Israeli Government. The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee passed two bills on 6 October 2024 aimed at ceasing UNRWA’s operations.

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Israel thought they could bury my family, but they didn’t realise they were seeds

Posted on October 26, 2024October 26, 2024 | Ahmed Alnaouq | The New Arab

Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the painful killing of 21 family members a year ago, & explains why this has driven him to speak louder on the plight of Palestinians.

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The world must stop the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza

Posted on October 23, 2024October 23, 2024 | B'Tselem

For a year now, since the war began, the international community has shown utter impotence to stop the indiscriminate attack on civilians in the Gaza Strip. Now, when it is clearer than ever that Israel intends to forcibly displace northern Gaza’s residents by committing some of the gravest crimes under the laws of war, the world’s nations must take action.

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I’m a Jewish Faculty Member at Harvard. Hillel Does Not Represent Me.

Posted on October 23, 2024October 23, 2024 | Aaron D.A. Shakow | The Harvard Crimson

I’m writing to ask that Harvard Hillel — the institution you oversee — stop claiming to represent the Jewish community on campus. Hillel’s longstanding hostility to dissent despite our community’s persistent disagreements on Israel, Palestine, Zionism, and campus free speech means that it is unable to serve as an honest broker.

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Recentering Palestine, reclaiming the movement

Posted on October 23, 2024October 23, 2024 | The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition | Columbia Spectator

The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition is a collective of Palestinian student organizers who wish to reclaim the pro-Palestinian student movement and recenter Palestine at Columbia University.